Quote Originally Posted by Sinaloa View Post
Physical classes do way more damage with their white hits which profit quite a lot from skill speed. A monk I know how claims to sit at 320+ dps told me 40% of his damage comes form autoattacking. Quite a good reason to invest in those. You just need to find the balance where more autoattacks do less damage than higher TP-Skills. No min-maxing here.
Monks gain an autoattack speed increase from their abilities; skill speed doesn't affect it.

And BLM are the exception, not the rule, due to essentially infinite mp. Spell speed isn't very good for most casters/healers either.